Remarks by Ernie Thomas
14 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“We'll remember it sometimes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Board Member Gangora. Appreciate your questions. As a follow-up, I know you kind of did it already, but is there a slide that shows a difference between what the applicant asked for and what the county is requesting?”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“So I do have similar concerns about tying this to a park. We talked about it, I think, briefly with staff, or I have. And I have a question for staff and the county attorney. And that is, can the Board of County Commissioners later create or designate a new county park that causes neighboring parcels to become eligible for 150 units to the acre without another CDMP amendment? That's the first question. And if so, how would the public receive notice that the park designation is simultaneously creating new high-density development rights”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“Uh, secondly, I do have some concern about also tying it to the smart plan. And in particular, uh, when I looked down Kendall drive, which is the area that I've spent a lot of time in, uh, having sat on the for a number of years, I know that that smart plan corridor is not close to being considered for a plan. or for development or for funding so i'm concerned about high density out west in particular some parcels that i've identified that would fall into this category and i don't have an answer of how to address that but i am concerned with tying it to a smart plan corridor that quite…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“Just as a follow-up to Board Member Montiel's question, is it possible, and this may be to the applicant as well as to staff, is it possible to resolve this vagueness in the text amendment by putting a number at 150 as proposed? But do we need to have this tied to parks and smart plan corridors in order for this application to work?”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“I think I agree with the concept that there are some limitations they're putting on this. However, those limitations also open the door in areas where high density is not appropriate.”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“Just as a follow-up to Board Member Wimus, I agree with you. This planning board should be looking at this as a countywide issue. I think where I have an issue is in the process. So to planning staff, is this something that we can address separate of an application? Can the staff bring an application that says we want to address this high-density zoning and how we do it? And the reason I'm saying that is when we tie it to an applicant's project that otherwise looks compatible and good. And we're, we're standing here trying to balance the two issues, one being the project itself and a broader…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“so the typical way if i can how do you do that yeah the typical way we we would do this is we would uh request that from the applicant the applicant would either agree or not and then we would make a motion based off of that and we can vote it up or down but i've not seen and the county attorney can correct me i've not seen where we do uh a kind of a split of this is what we require to uh to move this forward with a recommendation and then we have some additional recommendations we want you to consider i'm not sure that we do that but please guide us if you could please thank you for that all…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“Our motions usually have to do with the applicant, what they're asking for, and staff's recommendations. So we either approve with staff recommendation or we recommend approval without, in this case, without staff recommendation and a reiteration of conditions. And that's usually it. We don't typically do... in my experience having been here a couple years we don't typically do and by the way we'd like you to think about x y or z we usually address that with the applicant now if the applicant says no then that's a basis for our individual votes but we typically i've not seen conditions or…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“all right board member Thomas just briefly is there a project tied to this text amendment because I noticed there's an example on a 14 a 15 a 16 of a retail strip that looks like it's on Red Road is there a particular project that's I'm trying to watch which so like in the last application we had a particular project that was that we could analyze and this is a text amendment and I'm not seeing there is I assume he's got a client with a project there is no a concurrent there is no concurrent application there is a submittal to zoning but it's not it's not a concurrent application so it's not…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“I'm not sure if that was clarifying for me. I'm sorry. So there is no project. It is a countywide text amendment and they're representing a client who's got a separate application that's not being before us today. Is that clear? Is that what I understand? And the reason I'm asking, I'll take away the mystery. So I looked up the applicant Midwest REO number five. They have a project that's written about in the South Florida Business Journal, five-story warehouse that would have retail and office space. It's on Northwest 36th Street. I'm very familiar with that. I drive by it all the time. I'm…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“Conceptually, I'm okay with it. I just want to make sure a couple things, and it's probably going to be addressed in your zoning. Well, it will be addressed in your zoning. one the types of uses so it'd be really really nice when we see an application that's going to change the cdmp that that it comes with a list of for example what light industrial is so that we can make that assessment without having to go and find it uh so if you could provide that that would be awesome and secondly i know this area really well northwest 36th street i wish you luck with trying to get trucks in and out of…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“I'm comfortable, but I think it would be good when we review in the future to have those things.”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“Just as a follow-up, I think the vertical industrial does exist. I think when you just put it with a component of the retail on the bottom, that's what's unique. Because I believe at the airport currently they have a UPS facility that's vertical. Right. But it doesn't have any of the retail pieces associated with it.”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026